Abraham Lincoln's Birthday Cookie

Happy 204th Birthday, Lincoln!  Here! Have a cookie! :D

Okay, so maybe I made these for his birthday 3 years ago. Oooh well. ;)

Enjoy!

Mixers and Cut-Outs and Pans! Oh my!

    I'm so impatient to bake I might just burst into a million pieces.  I just finished looking through a recipe book Steve's dad found laying around the house, and even though it's from 1983 and each recipe has a gazillion inconvienient ingredients, it's beckoning me to my kitchen.  Which is, oh, only about 80 miles away right now.

    But honestly, I'll be back home by Wednesday night, and if anything goes the way I want it to, I'm going to bake everything in the universe.  Evvvverrrrythiiing. 

    Well, okay, that's obviously an exaggeration, but there's a New Years Eve Party looming in the near future... and even though the hosts would probably be happier if I brought a gallon of alcohol, I'm using it as an excuse to make dozens of cookies.  Because not only was that out-of-date cook book tempting me into a baking frenzy, but I also happened to have acquired a lot of nifty stuff for Christmas that I'm just dying to use.  And since I don't have any baked goods to be showing off at the moment, I thought I'd share them with you.

First up is my brand new stand mixer!

 Mom was ready to spend a ton of money on one of these things, but I really didn't want to start out with a super expensive one.  This stand mixer comes with two different sized bowls and dough hook attachments.  I've read mixed reviews about it, but either way, it should hopefully save me some work in the kitchen.  I reeeally hate using a hand mixer 12 minutes straight for buttercream frosting. Oh, and I happened to have broke both of our hand mixers in the last month anyway.

Mom also got me the Wilton Stand Up Doll Cake Pan, the Big Top giant cupcake pan, and the Wilton cake decorating stand!  Yay!

My buddy Janey got me this awesome set of fondant cutters.  (They're all great, but I think the leaves are going to be super handy.)  And Steve's dad got me a book called "1 Dough, 100 Cookies". (The one I'm reading with the Grinch above.)  I don't know about you guys, but to me that sounded like a challenge. So expect a lot of cookie posts as well. :P

 

Mom even cleared out a whole bottom cabinet for all my pans and such, and I reorganized my baking drawer.  So see?  I need to bake, pronto. It's killing me.

I'll leave you all now with a picture of my lovely kitchen, since Steve thinks you guys need to know where all the baking (or in this case, not-baking) happens. So ta dah!

Toodles!

<33 Rachel

Upcoming Cakes

I probably won't have money for all of my Christmas cakes, but I thought I'd make a list of some of the things I want to do.

1. Santa Claus Cake
2. My House in Gingerbread Form
3. Snowman Cake
4. Christmas Tree Cake
5. Super Secret Holly Birthday Cake
6. Ashley's Pink Princess Castle Cake
7. Anndd... A Neon Pink and Green Ankylosaurus Cake

Wish me financial luck :P

Adios!


<3Rachel

EDIT:  I got bored and made this video.  Youtube will probably disable the sound, but until then, enjoy!